Meanwhile, In Reality...
As yesterday's protesters come to realize that the noise they made probably didn't change a damn thing, it's worth noting that President Obama did bring up the issue of taxes yesterday:
But if it makes the sparse, virtually all-white, FoxNews-backed protesters happy, let's just tell them that they had something to do with it.
Obama used Tax Day, a national ritual of public frustration due to the confusing tax code, to underscore his drive to cut taxes for many Americans while increasing spending to jolt the United States out of its worst recession in decades...
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...Obama is pushing a $3.5 trillion federal budget plan that Republicans and some Democrats say carries too much deficit spending and too few tax cuts.
"My administration has taken far-reaching action to give tax cuts to the Americans who need them, while jump-starting growth and job creation in the process," Obama said at a White House event with a group of workers and business owners.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama had already cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans and would stick to his pledge of no higher taxes for anyone earning less than $250,000 a year.
But if it makes the sparse, virtually all-white, FoxNews-backed protesters happy, let's just tell them that they had something to do with it.
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